We were on Island Records for five or six years and we kinda just got tired of them always wanting to use our connections, all the time. It's like, they didn't really do much for us, I mean, they would give us money here and there and you know, do stuff like that but, I mean, overall, they didn't push us.
When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.
I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.
The name is something we thought about for a long time, and we wanted it to be a girl's name, but we didn't want it to be 'the Jesses,'. . . We were very conscious of not wanting to make it a twin thing, because we think that's really tacky.
It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.
You can love someone without wanting to be with them. Just like you can want to be with someone before you love them.
Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.
Who you are and what you know when you are born is everything that you need to know to thrive. You are born with a sense of self and a sense of wanting self to feel good and the mechanisms to bring it about.
One of the trends we're seeing in food and agriculture is more and more consumers wanting to know things about their food and where and how it's grown and what's in it.
I was a very wanting child.
As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.
A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.
I think there is a misconception that when people are the face of something, or they're the voice, especially when they're young women, that they're being created or molded by someone else. I think more so than not wanting to be a singer I was afraid of being mislabeled as just a singer - not that that's a bad thing.
The solution of the problem lies in seeing it—in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution—just seeing what’s there. . . .
The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.
Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.
Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.
I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.